Kim was born in Philadelphia where she still lives with her husband, Fred and daughter, Ashley. Her earliest musical influence was her uncle, James Robert Postell who she watched with a steady eye at a very young age as he tutored many adult men aspiring to learn to play the steel guitar.

No one realized that the reason she was watching so intensely was so later that evening, when no one was around, she could hide behind the credenza where Uncle James kept his instrument and mimic what she had absorbed earlier. Some years later she stood in awe of the sounds emulating from the “Doctor” as we called him, the late Bishop L. L. Harrison. This gave her another spin to add to her musical repertoire.

His rumbling bass tones, chords, various tunings and precision drove her bananas. As a teen she started playing steel guitar and rhythm guitar in the Church of the Living God where she was given much opportunity to expand on what she loves, “MUSIC”.